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    Re: How long is your password?

    We had face recognition software for an entryway camera. Whenever a person came in who was recognized, a little gong sounded. The gong was kind of unnecessary, since we were a small shop and everybody knew everybody else. Then one day the gong went off and we looked up to see a strange guy walk past. Somebody turned to me and asked, "who was that?". I replied, "he didn't look familiar, but his face sure rang a bell."

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    Re: How long is your password?

    That's good, because otherwise we would have to wag our tails and lick our teammates to show appreciation, instead of the good old salary raises.

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    Re: How long is your password?

    I remember way back when (mainframes and timeslicing) I used a password that was promptly forgotten...I subsequently had to get into the database table and retrieve my user name and password: turns out I'd dyslexically swapped two letters. Breaking in to a database, finding the users table and viewing everyone's user names and plain text passwords: the ironing didn't hit me until many years later.
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    Re: How long is your password?

    Breaking in to a database, finding the users table and viewing everyone's user names and plain text passwords...
    I have to say that almost every system I've ever worked on has stored passwords in plain text in a DB table. What's worse, the table is always called Users and the field is always called Password. I reckon that's not just my experience either. If you were able to do a survey probably more than 50% of the systems out there would be the same. Honestly, if a hacker ever managed to query a business's database direct I reckon it would take 30 seconds at most to harvest the lot.

    You don't spray the cats, that doesn't even work.
    Yeah, I guessed it was for the gadget not the cat, I'm not that cruel. I'm not sure it would really act as a deterrent though... the ginger one does love a curry.
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    What beats me is how you could get into the database and retrieve the data, when you dyslexically forgot part of your password.
    And yes, I can confirm FD's guess, though I would say in my case almost all systems I have worked with have had those 'flaws'. I would blame it all on the tutorials, though. Every tutorial on the net which deals with custom user authentication pretty much has the same properties. So the flawed design principle flows from there to the developers.

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    Re: How long is your password?

    4 strong.....

    EDIT: Oh wait, passwords.... silly me. Usually 8 characters, 5 letters 3 numbers.

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    Re: How long is your password?

    Quote Originally Posted by honeybee View Post
    That's good, because otherwise we would have to wag our tails and lick our teammates to show appreciation

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    Are you saying I shouldn't be doing that?

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    I don't know. Licking may not be hygienic. Wagging your tail may not be so bad, unless your tail is seventy feet long, in which case it will upset the furniture and computers and other stuff in the office. It may also knock down others.

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    Re: How long is your password?

    we would have to wag our tails and lick our teammates
    Bodwad already does
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